Legal Advantage was founded to meet the needs of Patent Attorneys, Litigators and Corporate Counsel. We set the standard for excellence and customer satisfaction in legal support services solutions. Intellectual Property Services.
Intellectual Property Services
Your IP matters require a fast and reliable drafting service, provided by people who care as much about your clients as you do. Legal Advantage is known for quickly executed, yet accurate and expressive IP drawings that require minimal revision. USPTO filing dates are inexorable, examiners are demanding; you need to know that your drawings will arrive on time, and that the results will be what you need. With our large staff, round-the-clock hours, and multiple quality control checks, we are the team that can do this for you. Click here to see examples of the work we have done.
Patent proofreading is an often overlooked chore in the patent process. 94% of granted U.S. patents contain errors, some of which can compromise the strength of the protection offered. Legal Advantage provides a cost effective proofing option that will keep your valued staff from getting bogged down in the details. You can reduce your error rate to nearly zero, and keep costs under control. Click here for more information about patent proof reading.
Legal Advantage uses state of the art search tools to perform exhaustive prior art searches across a wide range of international databases containing patents, technical journals and other kinds of non-patent literature. Novelty / patentability, validity and infringement / FTO searches will be returned to you on schedule and the completeness and quality will inspire confidence in your clients. Click here for more information.
Examination Support Documents
The USPTO has issued new demanding regulations and application guidelines for 2008, requiring you to perform more pre-examination searches, submit additional support documents, and limit you to four final office actions. Our ESD services include a thorough search of US Patents and Applications, International Patents, and Non-Patent Literature from a variety of technical journals and databases, ensuring that there will be no surprises with your application. Our expanding team of seasoned professionals with diverse backgrounds over expertise to guarantee that all your claims are covered.
Litigation Support
The initial review phase of the e-Discovery process is always a time consuming and costly endeavor. Not only do unknown outside attorneys from a staffing agency need to be hired for the document review, but a physical site must be properly equipped to house the workforce. By permanently keeping on staff over 35 legal associates, Legal Advantage eliminates much of the unknowns associated with resorting to temporary contract attorneys. Managed by US licensed attorneys with extensive experience in the intricacies of document review, our international staff is able to assist clients in a cost-efficient manner by meeting quick turnaround times without sacrificing accurate coding protocols. Our legal associates have extensive experience in not only subject matter coding and substantive privilege review, but also deposition summarization.
When you have mere minutes to communicate complex concepts to a judge or a jury, nothing does the job like professionally produced graphics. Drawings of all kinds, photographs and computer rendered stills and animations are just some of the tools we can put in your hands. Click here for examples and more details.
Legal Support Services
In today’s rapidly changing world, managing even a simple contract has become increasingly complex and time consuming. In response, Legal Advantage provides a robust contract management service. We help you maintain your competitive edge while simultaneously reducing and controlling your current contract management costs. Our seasoned and experienced team of attorneys and paralegals can manage the entire life-cycle of your routine contracts. Our Contracts Management service offering is tailored to your specific needs and includes the drafting, management and review of your basic corporate contracts.
In today’s information-rich environment, devoting enough resources to staff skilled legal researchers can often be a difficult and costly endeavor. Thorough legal researching abilities are oftentimes the key to adequate and professional representation of clients. Law clerks and paralegals, engaged as ad-hoc researchers, often lack the sufficient expertise and time to perform thorough research projects. By permanently employing a staff of 10 researches that have been extensively trained in American jurisprudence, Legal Advantage can assist clients in obtaining relevant, accurate, and timely answers to their legal problems. Managed by a US licensed attorney with a specialization in research, our international staff has experience using all the relevant databases, including Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw. Coupled with our expertise in patent prior art searching, our legal research capabilities allow Legal Advantage to be your “one-stop shop” for all your researching needs.
U.S. immigration rules are rapidly changing and application complexity is ever increasing; keeping yourself up to date requires significant time and effort. The average attorney spends a minimal amount of time engaging clients while the trend of skilled labor shortages and longer processing times continue to decrease profitability. Our experienced and trained staff are here to help, round-the-clock, so you and you staff can focus on your core business and other value-added services, allowing a typical immigration attorney to drastically increase profits. Click here to learn more.